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Lancement de la Journée d'Indépendance Numérique (DI-DAY) suite au 39c3

Beaucoup de nos services numériques du quotidien sont propulsés en partie voire entièrement par les GAFAM. Les risques de cette dépendance s'illustrent de plus en plus fréquemment dans l'actualité : représailles envers l'ex-Commissaire européen Thierry Breton et des ONG luttant contre la désinformation en ligne, clôture de la boite de courriel du procureur de la Cour Pénale Internationale, …

Ces vulnérabilités mettent en danger le fonctionnement des démocraties européennes.

On peut être tenté d'attendre une nouvelle législation européenne, cependant le carburant de ces plateformes est en premier lieu nos données personnelles : quitter ces plateformes réduit à la fois notre exposition personnelle et notre contribution collective à ce système néfaste.

C'est le sens de l'appel lancé à Hambourg lors du 39ème CCC : le 4 janvier (puis chaque 1er dimanche du mois), faites migrer vos connaissances d'une des plateformes et faites le savoir en utilisant les mots clés #DiDay ou #iDidIt sur le Fediverse.

Cet appel est soutenu notamment par Wikimedia, Nextcloud et Mastodon, et l'information a été relayée par la 1ère chaîne de TV allemande. Espérons que des acteurs de l'espace francophone s'y joignent rapidement !

Linux est bien sûr une des alternatives, dont la progression est en bonne voie « grâce » à Microsoft (mouvement qui s'inscrit parfaitement dans les initiatives existantes Adieu Windows ou End Of 10). Mais l'initiative concernent tous les services dépendants de ces plateformes toxiques : messageries instantanées, stockage en ligne, librairies en lignes, … dont la gratuité ou les prix au rabais reposent sur l'exploitation de nos données personnelles.

Le succès dépend donc de vous qui lisez cet article, et des relais « physiques » qui pourront accompagner ces migrations : cafés réparation, GULLs, librairies physiques, bibliothèques, … mois après mois !

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Intel Meteor Lake On Linux Two Years Post-Launch: 93% The Original Performance

As part of the various end-of-year annual benchmarking comparisons and the like on Phoronix, today is a look at how the Intel Core Ultra 7 155H "Meteor Lake" performance has evolved under Ubuntu Linux in the two years since launching. Plus with next-gen Intel Panther Lake laptops expected to be showcased next week at CES, it's a good time for revisiting the Meteor Lake performance to see the difference two years have made for Intel Meteor Lake laptops on Linux.
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MidnightBSD 4.0.1

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Linux 6.19 Closing Out 2025 With Several Laptop Additions

A New Year's Eve pull request is ready with several Intel/AMD laptop improvements for the ongoing Linux 6.19 kernel cycle. An x86 platform drivers pull request sent to Linus Torvalds today brings several notable driver enhancements with expanding the range of supported laptops...
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GCC & The GNU Toolchain's Exciting 2025 With New Languages, More Optimizations

The GCC compiler and the GNU toolchain ecosystem at large had a great year. From new language front-ends for the likes of Algol 68 and COBOL to maturing support for GCC Rust, new performance optimizations from GCC to Glibc, initial AMD Zen 6 "znver6" support merged for GCC 16, and much more. It's pretty safe to say GCC and the broader GNU ecosystem enjoyed a very successful 2025...
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Open-Source Crown Game Engine v0.60 Released

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Unexpected Surprise: Windows 11 Outperforming Linux On An Intel Arrow Lake H Laptop

Typically when receiving any review hardware preloaded with Microsoft Windows I tend to run some Windows vs. Linux benchmarks just as a sanity test plus it still seems to generate a fair amount of interest even though the outcome is almost always the same: Linux having a hefty performance advantage over Windows especially in the more demanding creator-type workloads. As an unexpected twist and time consuming puzzle the past two months, when recently testing out the Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 8 it's faster for numerous workloads now on Microsoft Windows 11 than Ubuntu Linux.
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X.Org IMAKE Updated For Those Not Yet Transitioned To Autoconf/Automake Or Meson

X.Org package wrangler Alan Coopersmith at Oracle announced today the release of imake 1.0.11, the newest version of this utility that 20+ years ago was used extensively as part of the X Window System build process for generating Makefiles from a template. With this first imake point release in two years, imake itself can now be built via Meson and there is now support for RISC-V and LoongArch architectures...
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Some Meaningful Performance Benefits For Clang + LTO Built Linux Kernels

Over the past few years building the Linux kernel with Clang has matured a lot thanks to upstream improvements to both LLVM/Clang and the Linux kernel. As it's been a while since our last comparison for GCC vs. Clang built kernels on the resulting system performance, our latest year-end 2025 benchmarking is providing a fresh look at the Linux 6.19 upstream Git kernel built under the latest stable GCC 15 and LLVM Clang 21 compilers. Plus with the Clang-built kernel is also the option of the Link-Time Optimized (LTO) kernel for even greater performance.
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Intel's Xe Linux Driver Ready With Multi-Device SVM To End Out 2025

Intel's open-source graphics driver engineers are ending out 2025 with a bang. Sent out today was the final drm-xe-next pull request of the year of new feature material ready for the next version of the Linux kernel. Today's pull adds support for SR-IOV scheduler groups as well as multi-device Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) support...
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LLVM 22 Lands NVIDIA Olympus CPU Scheduling Model

NVIDIA's Olympus are the ARM64 cores found within the upcoming Vera CPU that will be paired with Rubin. Olympus cores are claimed to be twice as fast as NVIDIA's current CPU cores found in Grace and based on Neoverse-V2. Earlier this year the open-source compilers landed initial support for Olympus while now a proper CPU scheduling model has been upstreamed into LLVM 22...
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Linux 6.19 Kernel Benchmarks With X86_NATIVE_CPU Optimization

Added to the Linux kernel earlier this year was the new X86_NATIVE_CPU Kconfig option to enable compiler optimizations for the local/native CPU in use when building the Linux kernel. In effect about ensuring that the "-march=native" compiler flag is set for the kernel build for optimizing the Linux kernel build for your processor being used. Back with Linux 6.16 I ran some benchmarks of the Linux kernel build with X86_NATIVE_CPU to gauge the impact. Now with the current Linux 6.19 kernel and some different hardware, here are some additional on/off benchmarks for evaluating the impact of the Linux kernel build with X86_NATIVE_CPU...
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Lite 7.8-rc1

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InputPlumber 0.70 Released With Expanded Hardware Support

InputPlumber 0.70 is out today as the newest feature update to this open-source input router and re-mapper daemon for Linux systems. With more gaming handhelds coming to market and other controllers as well as the upward trajectory of Linux gaming, InputPlumber is becoming more applicable for this daemon to combine various input devices into different virtual device formats...
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The Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Drivers Enjoyed A Rather Remarkable 2025

The open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers making up Mesa had another very successful year. Even with all the years being invested into Mesa largely by Intel, AMD, Valve, Red Hat, and others, the upward trajectory continues for Mesa on expanding the hardware support, punctually adding new Vulkan extensions, and racking up other wins...
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It Took 6+ Years For Linux's "New" Mount API To Be Properly Documented In Man Pages

In demonstrating one of the gaps of man pages in modern times and likely having hindered the adoption of the Linux kernel's new mount API, it took more than six years for those system calls to be properly documented within man pages. The Linux "new" mount API was introduced back in mid-2019 with Linux 5.2 and since supported by key file-systems after several years but not until weeks ago was this file descriptor based mount API scoped out within man pages...
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Loc-OS 24

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